Former Bastiat Prize winners in contention again as 2010 shortlist announced

Two former winners of the Bastiat Prize for Journalism have made it onto this year's shortlist for the $10,000 print journalism award.

The Financial Times' Tim Harford and freelancer Jamie Whyte, who shared the accolade in 2006, will compete against five others for the prize, organised by the International Policy Network (IPN), which recognises writers whose work promotes and defends "the principles and institutions of the free society". Financial Times columnist Martin Wolf has also been shortlisted.

For the second year in the award's history, an online journalism prize shortlist has been announced with writer and journalist James Delingpole in the running for the $3,000 prize for his Telegraph.co.uk blog.

A full shortlist for the two categories is available below and the winners will be announced early next month. The 2009 print journalism award was won by US university professor John Hasnas and the online prize by controversial MEP Daniel Hannan.

Print journalism award
Andrew Ferguson, Weekly Standard;
Peter Foster, National Post, Canada;
Tim Harford, Financial Times;
Jeff Jacoby, Boston Globe;
Bret Stephens, Wall Street Journal;
Jamie Whyte, freelance (for articles written in The Times and Wall Street Journal);
Martin Wolf, Financial Times.

Online journalism award
James Delingpole, blogger for Telegraph.co.uk;
Philip Maymin, columnist, fairfieldweekly.com and lewrockwell.com;
Mark Perry, Carpe Diem blog/American Enterprise Institute /University of Michigan;

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